Re: ARP responses broken!

2001-04-17 Thread Martin Josefsson
On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 03:26:19PM -0600, Eric Weigle wrote: > > Hello- > > > > This is a known 'feature' of the Linux kernel, and can help with load sharing > > and fault tolerance. However, it can also cause problems (such as when one nic > > in a multi

Re: ARP responses broken!

2001-04-17 Thread Martin Josefsson
On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Andi Kleen wrote: [snip] > > Does arpfilter exist in 2.4 kernels? > > Not yet, will be merged very soon. I can send you a patch if you need it urgently. No I don't need it urgently. I was asking because I had this problem before (router with two cards against one physical s

Re: Possible problem with zero-copy TCP and sendfile()

2001-04-17 Thread Martin Josefsson
On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Wolfgang Rohdewald wrote: > On Tuesday 17 April 2001 22:36, Jan Kasprzak wrote: > > +    if (len == -1 || len > 0 && len < count) { > > are you sure there are no missing () ? > > if ((len == -1) || (len > 0) && (len < count)) { > > assumig that && has precedence over || (I

Changelog for 2.4.3-pre1

2001-03-03 Thread Martin Josefsson
Here's the Changelog that can be found at ftp.*.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/testing/ChangeLog I think Linus forgot to send it. -pre1: - Chris Mason: reiserfs, another null bytes bug - Andrea Arkangeli: make SMP Athlon build - Alexander Zarochentcev: reiserfs directory fsync SMP locking fix

Re: Network Performance?

2001-01-09 Thread Martin Josefsson
On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Tim Sailer wrote: > On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 07:07:18PM +0100, Erik Mouw wrote: > > I had similar problems two weeks ago. Turned out the connection between > > two switches: one of them was hard wired to 100Mbit/s full duplex, the > > other one to 100Mbit/s half duplex. Just to

Re: Linux booting from HD on Promise Ultra ATA 100

2001-01-12 Thread Martin Josefsson
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Stephen Torri wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I'm having difficulty booting from the Promise controller. Here is the > story: > > I originally had my system setup with all drives working off the > mainsboard IDE controller (Intel 82371AB PIIX4).

Re: Linux booting from HD on Promise Ultra ATA 100

2001-01-12 Thread Martin Josefsson
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Stephen Torri wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Martin Josefsson wrote: > > > My setup looks like this, I boot from hde > > I configured my BIOS to boot from SCSI (I have no scsi-adapter but t

Re: 'holey files' not holey enough.

2000-11-29 Thread Martin Josefsson
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Adam wrote: > On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote: > > > > [adam@pepsi /tmp]$ dd if=/dev/zero of=holed.file bs=1000 seek=5000 count=1000 > > > [adam@pepsi /tmp]$ ls -l holed.file > > > -rw-rw-r--1 adam adam 600 Nov 29 08:52 holed.file > > >

Re: ip_nat_ftp and different ports

2000-12-03 Thread Martin Josefsson
On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Taco IJsselmuiden wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having trouble masquerading ftp-ports other than 20/21. > For some service i'm using, i need to masquerade port 42,43,62,63 for FTP > (I know it's weird...). > Now, when using 2.2.x kernels i could use > 'insmod ip_masq_ftp ports=21,41,4

Re: ip_nat_ftp and different ports

2000-12-03 Thread Martin Josefsson
On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Taco IJsselmuiden wrote: > On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Martin Josefsson wrote: > > > On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Taco IJsselmuiden wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I'm having trouble masquerading ftp-ports other than 20/21. > >

Re: [PATCH *] VM patch for 2.4.0-test8

2000-09-15 Thread Martin Josefsson
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, David S. Miller wrote: > > > In page_launder() about halfway down there is this sequence of tests > > on LRU pages: > > > > if (!clearedbuf) { > > ... > > } else if (!page->mapping) { > > ... > > } else if (page_count(page) > 1)

Re: Installing kernel 2.4

2000-11-07 Thread Martin Josefsson
On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote: > On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Anil kumar wrote: > > The system hangs after messages: > > loading linux.. > > uncompressing linux, booting linux kernel OK. > > > > The System hangs here. > > > > Please let me know where I am wrong > > Hi Anil, >

2.4.0-test13-pre3 and ext2 as module

2000-12-17 Thread Martin Josefsson
Hi I compiled test13-pre3 a few minutes ago and when running make modules_install I got this: depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.0-test13-pre3/kernel/fs/ext2/ext2.o depmod: buffer_insert_inode_queue depmod: fsync_inode_buffers As you may have noticed I have ext2

Re: 2.4.0-test13-pre3 and ext2 as module

2000-12-17 Thread Martin Josefsson
On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > > I compiled test13-pre3 a few minutes ago and when running > > make modules_install I got this: > > > > depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in >/lib/modules/2.4.0-test13-pre3/kernel/fs/ext2/ext2.o > > depmod: buffer_insert_inode_queue > > depmod:

Re: 2.4.0-test13-pre3 and ext2 as module

2000-12-17 Thread Martin Josefsson
On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Martin Josefsson wrote: > On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > I compiled test13-pre3 a few minutes ago and when running > > > make modules_install I got this: > > > > > > depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in >/lib/mo

Re: 2.4.0-test13-pre3 and ext2 as module

2000-12-17 Thread Martin Josefsson
hackers are funny people: They count the time in patchlevels. On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Martin Josefsson wrote: > On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Martin Josefsson wrote: > > > On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > > > I compiled test13-pre3 a few minutes ago and when runnin

serialconsole broken in 2.4.2-ac16

2001-03-09 Thread Martin Josefsson
Hi I found out that there has been a namechange in serial.h and here's the corresponding changes to serial.c. --- linux-2.4.2-ac16.backup/drivers/char/serial.c Fri Mar 9 16:39:16 2001 +++ linux-2.4.2-ac16/drivers/char/serial.c Fri Mar 9 19:57:52 2001 @@ -5494,7 +5494,7 @@

Re: Can't get driver to work: D-Link DFE-570TX (de4x5.o) on Linux2.4

2001-03-13 Thread Martin Josefsson
On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Avi Green wrote: > > Dear folks, > > I apologize for bothering you, but if by any chance this is an easy > question for you to answer (wishful thinking, huh?) I'd be very grateful > if you would.* > > I have some new Hawk PCs (Pentium-III) with D-Link DFE-570TX Fast > Ethe

Re: How to optimize routing performance

2001-03-15 Thread Martin Josefsson
On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, [ISO-8859-1] Mårten Wikström wrote: > > > I've performed a test on the routing capacity of a Linux 2.4.2 box > > versus a FreeBSD 4.2 box. I used two Pentium Pro 200Mhz computers with > > 64Mb memory, and two DEC 100Mbit ethernet ca

RE: How to optimize routing performance

2001-03-15 Thread Martin Josefsson
On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Mårten Wikström wrote: [much text] > Thanks! I'll try that out. How can I tell if the driver supports > CONFIG_NET_HW_FLOWCONTROL? I'm not sure, but I think the cards are > tulip-based, can I then use Robert & Jamal's optimised drivers? > It'll probably take some time before

Re: floppy programming

2001-03-19 Thread Martin Josefsson
On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Alex Baretta wrote: > Leandro Bernsmuller wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > some body know if exist or is possible to do one > > driver > > to makes floppy drive use some type of "balanced" bits > > distribution? > > ... > > I don't remember where I saw it, but I'm sure there is

Re: Linux 2.4.2-ac24

2001-03-23 Thread Martin Josefsson
On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/ > > Intermediate diffs are available from > > http://www.bzimage.org > > (Note that the cmsfs port to 2.4 is a work in progress) > > 2.4.2-ac24 > o Fi

Re: 2.4 and ipmasq modules

2001-01-23 Thread Martin Josefsson
On 23 Jan 2001, Daniel Stone wrote: [snip] > > -:- DCC GET request from aaronl_[[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [64.81.36.147:33989]] 150 bytes /* That's the NAT box's IP */ > > -:- DCC Unable to create connection: Connection refused > > > > Any idea what's wrong? I have irc-conntrack-nat compil

Re: No SCSI Ultra 160 with Adaptec Controller

2001-01-24 Thread Martin Josefsson
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Tim Sullivan wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Yes, that code is still necessary. There's a new aic7xxx driver by Justin > > Gibbs at Adaptec which is now being beta tested which corrects this issue. > > Justin's 6.0.9beta(latest release) hasn't corrected the probl

Re: [2.2.18] outgoing connections getting stuck in SYN_SENT

2001-01-24 Thread Martin Josefsson
On 24 Jan 2001, Mark Longair wrote: > Mark Longair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [..] > > I'm having a problem where twice a day or so, any new tcp connection > > it gets stuck in SYN_SENT. Eventually this situation rights itself, > > but obviously in the meantime many services (e.g. squid, X) a

APIC lockup in 2.4.x-x

2001-02-06 Thread Martin Josefsson
Hi I saw your patch for the APIC lockup and I saw that it was included in 2.4.1-ac2 so I tried that one.. but it didn't help.. I can begin with describing my machine: dual pIII 800 (133MHz FSB) Asus P3C-D mainboard with i820 chipset 256MB rimm (rambus) Dlink DFE570TX (4 port tulip card) Adaptec

Re: APIC lockup in 2.4.x-x

2001-02-06 Thread Martin Josefsson
On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Manfred Spraul wrote: > Martin Josefsson wrote: > > > > Hi > > > > I saw your patch for the APIC lockup and I saw that it was included in > > 2.4.1-ac2 so I tried that one.. but it didn't help.. > > > > I can begin with des

Re: APIC lockup in 2.4.x-x

2001-02-07 Thread Martin Josefsson
On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Manfred Spraul wrote: > Martin Josefsson wrote: > > > > Hi > > > > I saw your patch for the APIC lockup and I saw that it was included in > > 2.4.1-ac2 so I tried that one.. but it didn't help.. > > > > I can begin with des

Re: 2.4.2-pre2(&3) loopback fs hang

2001-02-12 Thread Martin Josefsson
On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Ville Herva wrote: > On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 01:54:46AM -0800, you [Colonel] claimed: > > > > >mount -o loop=/dev/loop1 net.i /var/mnt/image/ > > > > ends up in an uninterruptable sleep state (system cannot umount / > > during shutdown). > > > > How do I track this down? >

Re: 2.4.4-ac[356]: network (8139too) related crashes

2001-05-28 Thread Martin Josefsson
On Mon, 28 May 2001, Andris Pavenis wrote: > On Sunday 27 May 2001 02:34, Alan Cox wrote: [snip] > > Can you try 2.4.5 with the 8139too.c file from the 2.4.3-ac3 that works for > > you and report on that > > Done. > > Seems that taking 8139too.o from 2.4.3-ac3 fixes the problem. > > Tortured

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] 4 ports ETH cards

2001-05-30 Thread Martin Josefsson
On Wed, 30 May 2001, Michael H. Warfield wrote: [snip] > Just got three of these suckers and I'm about to order a bunch > more (happy camper)... yes the Dlink DFE570-TX is a very nice card indeed. [snip] > Because the D-Link cards were less than half of the nearest > competitor [ <

Re: Lockup in 2.4.5-ac2

2001-06-06 Thread Martin Josefsson
On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Glenn Shannon wrote: > Hi all! > > Enjoying the -ac2 kernel except for one minor thing: it locks up. As I see below you have a Realtek 8139B... The 8139too driver in 2.4.3-something to 2.4.5-ac2 is broken. It will hang your machine. so upgrade to 2.4.5-ac3 or above (2.4.5-ac

Re: Disaster under heavy network load on 2.4.x

2001-06-11 Thread Martin Josefsson
On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Michal Margula wrote: > Hello! > > My friend told me to noticed you about problems I had with 2.4.x line of > kernels. I started up from 2.4.3. Under heavy load I was getting > messages from telnet, ping, nmap "No buffer space available". Strace > told me it was error marked

Re: Possibly wrong contact for e100 driver

2005-08-28 Thread Martin Josefsson
On Sun, 2005-08-28 at 20:50 +0200, iSteve wrote: > Greetings, > in past few days, I've been trying to obtain certian information about > behavior of e100 NIC driver with my minipci card. My first hit was the > contact information mentioned in the header of e100.c, that is, "Linux > NICS <[EMAIL

Re: Top 9 kernel oopses/warnings for the week of December 29th, 2007

2007-12-29 Thread Martin Josefsson
On Sat, 29 Dec 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: Ahh, it seems to be a alpine bug. Probably brought on by alpine trying to highlight the web addresses. It doesn't always happen - between Rank 3 and Rank 4, you have an empty line, and alpine reacted correctly to that one, but the "empty" line between

Re: Memory leak in 2.6.11-rc1?

2005-01-27 Thread Martin Josefsson
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: > Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > This mornings magic numbers are: > > > > 3 > > ip_dst_cache1292 1485256 151 > > I just did a q-n-d test here: send one UDP frame to 1.1.1.1 up to > 1.1.255.255. The ip_dst_cache grew

Re: Performance of iptables-restore on large rule sets

2005-01-28 Thread Martin Josefsson
On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 12:56 -0600, Steve Bergman wrote: > I have a large rule set (~53000 rules) that I sometimes load using > iptables-restore. (It takes almost an hour. > > Googling around tells me that the loop detection code in the kernel is > slow with large rule sets. The only thing tha

Re: Average power consumption in S3?

2005-03-09 Thread Martin Josefsson
On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 15:26 +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > Hi, > I'm using an IBM Thinkpad X31. With stock 2.6.11 and the additional > radeontool to power-off the backlight in suspend, S3 works very well > and reliable. During S3 I've measured a power consumption of 1400 > to 1500 mWh (using 51

Re: rtl8139 - kernel 2.4.3

2001-05-18 Thread Martin Josefsson
On Thu, 17 May 2001, Ted Gervais wrote: > > I get the following when ftping from one workstation to another. > Using kernel 2.4.3 and Redhat7.1: > > Assertion failed! tp->tx_info[entry].skb == >NULL,8139too.c,rtl8139_start_xmit,line=1676 > Assertion failed! tp->tx_info[entry].mapping == >0,81

Re: Linux 2.6.11-rc2

2005-01-22 Thread Martin Josefsson
On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 22:32 -0800, Udo A. Steinberg wrote: > On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 18:13:55 -0800 (PST) Linus Torvalds (LT) wrote: > > LT> Ok, trying to calm things down again for a 2.6.11 release. > > Connection tracking does not compile... > > CC net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_standalone.

Re: Linux 2.6.11-rc2

2005-01-22 Thread Martin Josefsson
On Sat, 2005-01-22 at 12:57 -0800, Udo A. Steinberg wrote: > On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 15:04:29 +0100 Martin Josefsson (MJ) wrote: > > MJ> On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 22:32 -0800, Udo A. Steinberg wrote: > MJ> > > MJ> > Connection tracking does not compile... > > MJ>

Re: Linux 2.6.11-rc2

2005-01-22 Thread Martin Josefsson
On Sat, 2005-01-22 at 18:54 -0500, sean wrote: > I'm compiling with NAT, and get a different problem: > >LD net/ipv4/netfilter/built-in.o > net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_nat_tftp.o(.bss+0x0): multiple definition of > `ip_nat_tftp_hook' > net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_tftp.o(.bss+0x0): first d

Re: [Bug 4081] New: OpenOffice crashes while starting due to a threading error

2005-01-23 Thread Martin Josefsson
On Sat, 2005-01-22 at 18:38 -0800, Randy.Dunlap wrote: > > Distribution: Debian > > Hardware Environment: Pentum III 733 MHz > > Software Environment: Debian Sid > > Problem Description: > > While starting open Office crashes, it did not happend on 2.6.10, but > > happend on > > 2.6.11. rc1 and r

Re: Linux 2.6.11-rc2

2005-01-24 Thread Martin Josefsson
On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 22:51 -0800, David Brownell wrote: > I'm seeing a problem with TCP as accessed through KMail (SuSE 9.2, x86_64). > But oddly enough, only for sending mail, not reading it; and not through > other (reading) applications... it's a regression with respect to rc1 and > earlier ker

Re: [BUG] panic 2.6.20-rc3 in nf_conntrack

2007-01-03 Thread Martin Josefsson
(correct) analysis after having made the patch below, it has been tested successfully by Bernhard Schmidt. (Netfilter bugzilla #528) Check the return value of nfct_nat() in device_cmp(), we might very well have non NAT conntrack entries as well. Signed-off-by: Martin Josefsson <[EMAIL PROT

Re: Soft lockup on shutdown in nf_ct_iterate_cleanup()

2007-02-25 Thread Martin Josefsson
On Sun, 2007-02-25 at 18:31 +0100, Patrick McHardy wrote: > [NETFILTER]: conntrack: fix {nf,ip}_ct_iterate_cleanup endless loops > > {nf,ip}_ct_iterate_cleanup iterate over the unconfirmed list for cleaning > up conntrack entries, which is wrong for multiple reasons: > > - unconfirmed entries ca